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What Is Parallax Website Design?

In parallax website design, different objects move at different speeds. Generally, objects that are farther away will move more slowly than objects that are closer to the viewer. Conversely, objects that are in front will move faster than the objects behind them.

It's an Animation

Just like any animation, you change how something moves based on something else, like time. In this case however, you are animating parts of your website compared to the viewer's location on the page.

The speed of the animation is controlled by how fast the visitor scrolls down the page. This means that the viewer gets to control how fast the animation goes. If the visitor scrolls really quickly, the animation will progress really quickly. If the visitor scrolls slowly, the animation will progress slowly.

This creates an animation where the visitor gets to decide how fast it goes. It's a a bit like one of the flip books that when you quickly move through the pages, it looks like a moving image. Unlike a video, your visitor gets to decide how fast time progresses.

While parallax is usually used to make the background move more slowly than the rest of the page, it can also be used to make objects move more quickly. This will make them look like they are closer to the visitor.

For the parallax to work, we need to adjust the top of the background element. In this case, it is contained in a div with an id topDiv, stored in a variable named topDiv. The background's position will adjusted by changing the backgroundPosition of the element:

The HTML

The HTML with CSS

Next, we will add some basic styling. This specifies the image we will be using as a background, in this case img1.jpg. Feel free to change it to whatever image you wish. We will set our div element's height to 1500px, however you can make it as tall as you would like.

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